I'm forbidden to tell you what my talk is about, but here are three possible titles I'm tossing around:

My Recipe for Happiness: Submit to Corporate America

Let's Try Group Levitation -- Right NOW!

Everyone Needs Friends: The Inspiring Story of My Fight to Bring Back America's Best Sitcom

I can't wait to share my Powerful and Profound thoughts with you about one of these topics. (Many of the words I'll be using will be Capitalized so you know they are Important.)

But seriously: I'm so honored to get to be part of this event. The theme of the conference is language, and a few of the other speakers includeTurning the Wheel's Lizzi Juda and Lulu Steinberg, Missoula Mayor John Engen, Salish and Pend d’Oreille language school Executive Director April Charlo, climate change communicator SusanJoy Hassol, journalist Clay Scott and Raptors of the Rockies Director Kate Davis. And that's not all! Click here to see all the speakers, and watch a short video about the conference. And if you're in Missoula and you see Jace Laakso out and about, please thank him for making this event happen. He and a fantastic team of dedicated volunteers are working their tails off to bring this together. It's a labor of love, and they all deserve a ton of kudos.

Order your tickets here -- and they're encouraging folks to do so quickly, as there is a good possibility they'll sell out. The event is Friday, February 20 at the Dennison Theater on the UM campus.

For those who aren't familiar with TED, it's an amazing organization which hosts conferences around the world and publishes the talks of their presenters in video form online. TEDx is sort of like TED's younger, scrappier cousin -- it follows the format of TED, but conferences are shorter and ticket prices are lower. In both cases, though, the tagline is "ideas worth spreading," and the emphasis is on short, dynamic talks that teach and inspire. Once you start watching TED talks (or listening to NPR's spin-off program, the TED Radio Hour), you can get sort of addicted. Each talk is sort of like a high-protein power shake for your mind which happens to taste good too.

Or at least, that's the hope. I better quit telling you about it and get back to work on my own little power shake. Hmmm....levitation? Submission to corporate America? Friends? I wonder...